Multi-boxing issue stumped for 6 months

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Let me start off by saying I play this game 96% of the time, completely solo, as this is what I prefer. That said, I enjoy multi-boxing 8 accounts. It’s an acquired skill. I had a 9900k that seemed to be dying and I only had 32gb of ddr4 ram. I was able to run 5 instances of d2r, with all settings as low as possible. It would run absolutely fine, didn’t have to cap fps, didn’t have to do anything other than reduce settings as it should be. I wanted to run all 8 but again, I only had 32gb of ram. The other 3 accounts I ran on an old laptop. Mind you, both machines had windows 10.

I have not been able to play this since October 2024, basically since 24h2 on windows 11. I have tried everything I can think of. This issue first popped up on a laptop I purchased last year model Asus GU603VI. I ended up getting this working by disabling gpu scheduling, and other windows graphic “enhancements”. However, this was ultimately unsatisfying because I was still having to use 2 machines. I don’t use a KVM switch, so I had to deal with using 2 sets of keyboards and mice, while alt tabbing the accounts. This was not ideal.

I decided to then just build a new pc. 9800x3d on the x870e hero, 64gb 6000 ddr5, gpu is a 3080ti that came from the old system (since we all know gpu market is… ridiculous right now). PSU again came from old system which is a Supernova P2 1200 from EVGA. However, even after doing the exact same configuration changes as I did with the laptop, I still can’t play.

All solid components. All hardware passes any synthetic test I throw at it, and believe me I’ve tried and tried again to get something to fail.

I should mention I ONLY use sysinternals process explorer to multi-box. I’ve scoured the internet for 6 months trying to find a solution. I see the same handful of results which include someone using ISboxer as well having this problem. None of them have any solution that I’ve been able to reproduce.

Now to the actual issue. With 1 instance, I can play the game just fine. Sometimes I can get 2 or even all 8 to open, but always eventually ends within a short time my system is in a full hang. Sound loop and all but is not completely unresponsive. I still can sort of move the mouse cursor around, and eventually if I leave the system running, it will recover with all accounts disconnected but still open. There is no event ID at the specific time of the hang in event viewer.

I can not figure this out.

Edit: if it needs to be said, this is the only game I’m having any noticeable issues with. Also if you’re one of the ignorants who think multiboxing is against TOS or EULA, please keep scrolling. You are wrong.

Edit 2: I know some will say the most obvious and simple solution; Just go back to windows 10. I would love to, windows 11 SUCKS. The x870e has this new wifi 7 BS that is unsupported in windows 10, there are no drivers. And because Comcast wants to charge me 15 thousand dollars to get internet to my house from the road between 400-600ft (ABSURD) I only have verizon wireless internet.

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Hey this is a friendly reply and i logged in just to let you know that this is the absolute worse place you could ask for help lol…

Even if it’s not against TOS or EULA, the people that spend their every waking useless moment here in this cesspool of a forum will hate you for multiboxing because you’re technically “cheating” so don’t expect a reply.

I won’t tell you how here but there are other methods for having multiples instances open, you just need to search for it.

gl!

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No thank you. The methods you are referring to ARE actually ‘illegal’ for lack of a better word.

Running multiple accounts simultaneously while being the only input (myself) giving commands to these instances is in fact not “cheating”. By this logic, your friends being afk in your game would be cheating as well.

While there are many, many ignorant people on the internet now days, this forum included, I’ll still take my chances. No skin off my nose if nobody here is intelligent enough to figure it out, I certainly can’t. At least not yet.

Thanks for the reply.

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Look i’m not judging you, frankly i don’t care what ppl do as long as you’re not toxic like griefer or pk i’m fine with whatever…
Just my 2 cents
#1 24h2 is a really bad system for playing d2r
Perhaps rollback to 23h2 and postpone the upgrade… wifi drivers should still work, except you’d be having no 6GHz functionality, so you’d be effectively running wifi6 not wifi7, though the drivers you speak of don’t care if it’s 23h2 or 24h2 they work on both, except the fact that only 24h2 enables 6GHz functionality…
On a side note some intel wifi7 cards do work with amd cpus it’s just a matter of proper bios update some older mobos don’t have them and never will though new model mobos should get them sooner or later… nothing prevents you from checking, intel wifi7 cards are only few $… intel wifi7 cards do have win 10 drivers on the contrary to qualcomm ones that are compatible with amd from the get go…

#2 the main reason behind the game loging out on multiple accounts coul be the fact that blizz itself announced a fix for how they called it abusing the game system preventing launch of multiple instances of the game on one rig…
They did that in a forum post roughly ~½ year ago.

So don’t take it as me shunning you for doing anything…
All i’m saying is that blizz itself took some preventic measures, in order to stop ppl runing multiple instances of the game on one pc…
So it’s either more ram and virtual machines or more physical machines and a kvm switch for You
I think…
As i said i don’t care about multiboxers myself, though blizz probably does, and without saying so directly

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Leslaw,

I agree 24h2 is a bad system, you could just end the sentence there lol. This board does not have any wifi functionality in windows 10, period. The drivers do not exist. While I appreciate your effort here, I’m looking to fix this problem and not find a work around.

On the game disconnections, I’m inclined to think it’s more to do with my system hanging for multiple hours, in turn the game servers do not get a response from my system and I would then be disconnected.

Again, I appreciate the reply. At risk of jinxing myself, I’ve had a lot of promise today tweaking paging file on my ssd’s. I noticed that the specific ssd that I run all 8 instances from had paging file disabled. Once this was changed my problem seems to have gone away, but I will need to continue to test. It will be safe to assume that if I do not update this, that’s the fix.

Edit: This is not the full fix, however, the system will recover within a ~minute after it hangs. Now only a couple instances lose connection upon recovery, but will reconnect. This is the most progress I’ve made in 6 months.

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well You haven’t specified the board exactly i just assumed it has a m.2 port with A+E notches with a qualcomm wifi7 card inside, are You trying to say that the wifi chip is soldered to the mobo? if it is indeed in a m.2 port you should be easily able to replace it with a different one

as I said before currently there are two types of wifi7 m.2 cards either some qualcomm model ( compatible with AMD from the get go yet does not have win 10 drivers) or intel BE200, ( this one requires a bios update that enables support for AMD and not all AMD mobos get this), yet x870 is relatively new mobo and should have the bios update available if not already in) intel BE200 is just a dozen or two $ or so, and Intel BE200 does have win 10 drivrs on the contrary to qualcomm wifi7 card… belive me I’ve gone through that topic in june last year when this stuff began to apper on the market, and plowed though the forums worldwide to find my answers, and i have it all covered…

the only thing that i don’t know is model of your mobo… i could check if it has a soldered wifi chip or is it replacable m.2 card, if it’s an m.2 slot with m.2 wifi card it could be replaced, i could even search for an answer if Your mobo has bios patched for intel BE200…

the disconnections by no respnse are rather not blizz side but connection configuration of your ISP if it’s PPPoE and ISP configured it to “connect on demand” You’re out of luck as the connection itself will drop after few minutes of inaction… You’d have to tweak connection settings in either your PC or router to “connection keep alive” and set some really small timeframe for re-checking the connection like pinging google server every 1-2 seconds, this would make it stable until Your ISP gets pissed off on You for keeping the connection for too long (since PPPoE is used as default for ISPs who have pelthora of clients and small IP pool assuming you have an external ipv4 at all, as it’s not guaranteed in today’s times).

Setting Pagefile on the same drive you keep your game on or your windows on is generally a bad idea, it is best to do it on a separate physical drive, and i mean it… Pagefile relies on random 4k reads and even the fastest m.2 NVMe drives on the market have miserable 4k random reads like ~50MB/s, so a separate drive for the task is preferable hence why I used two separate drive connections to mobo from my drive device and configured it for 2 separate drives on which i setuped a pagefile for each.

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Thanks again for the response, but honestly none of this is particularly useful or helpful to my situation. While I appreciate the bit about paging file and separate drives, almost nobody configures their PC this way and things work just fine.

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look i know it’s a wall of text but try to focus and read it…

TL : DR
Perhaps Your MoBo WiFi can potentially be replaced to something that has drivers for win 10, so You wouldn’t nessecarily sit on win 24h2 if you don’t want to… that is IF your wifi chip is an m.2 expansion card and is not soldered to the motherboard, it canbe either or.

Just in case Your wifi card doesn’t have win 10 drivers because it’s a qualcom wifi7 card ( since those are compatible with AMD CPUs from the get-go).

on the other hand Intel BE200 wifi 7 card does have win 10 drivers, it’s compatibility with AMD CPUs is just a bit problematic. In order for Intel BE200 to work with AMD CPU You need to perform MoBo bios update with a bios that fixes the Intel BE200 issue with AMD CPUs, afther this You can just install the card and install win 10. install Intel DSA, and wifi drivers through it, and that’s it.

Now if in yor next message you input Your motherboard’s manufacturer and model, i may be able to search the internet for some answers for you:
-is the wifi chip soldered to mobo or is it m.2 card in m.2 slot
-does your mobo have a bios update fixing Intel wifi7 card compatibility issue, and what bios version it is…

simple as that…
…or simply if you don’t want to revert to win10, say so, However claiming you won’t revert back because wifi does not work is sort of a lame excuse given reasons stated by me above…

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Fix this problem as in not go back to windows 10 but FIX the CURRENT issue.

The issue I have with your text, I’ve already tried to install drivers in windows 10, they don’t install, period. Not compatible, even has a popup that says so when attempting.

Again, none of if is particularly useful to me or my situation. Sorry, not sorry.

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since You don’t want to go back to win 10 i won’t bother to even try to search…

I wanted to search if it’s possible to replace your wifi card with some other wifi7 model of different brand… from what i already know Your mobo model has got the crapiest possible wifi nic from MediaTek company seemes just like qualcomm to not have win 10 drivers, yet as i said before Intel’s WiFi7 nic does have win 10 drivers, other drivers for windows 10 despite ( from what i’ve learned) Your pendrive with drivers… that you probably stick to so much, probably exist as well in other sources of drivers, also the pendrive won’t get you updated drivers anyways, Tou’ll just be stuck with what you bought…

I haven’t found if your mobo’s wifi module is or is not replaceable, yet if you wilingly don’t want to severt back to win 10 ( even if You’d have all the drivers for it), then there is no reason for me to search for all the info anyways…

TL : DR
Your scoffing deproved me of will to search
I’m not going to FIX ANYTHING for You this is the issue between M$ and Blizz themselfs to handle… and likely Blizz by introducing a recent patch stated clearly: “we haven’t forbid ppl to multibox in EULA, but we still don’t want ppl to do that”

Your lacking behaviour got me pissed off… Deal with your problem on your own with such attitude You won’t find much ppl to help you anywhere, and if you do, they’ll likely soon quit like i did.

Learn to treat ppl with respect first an then come to ask for anything!

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Sorry you’re so sensitive. Let’s get something straight. You repeatedly tell me to specify my platform, when I in fact did in the first post, and it’s you who needs to read. You repeatedly make passive aggressive comments, yet I’m the one who needs a lesson in respect? You must be young, or just immature. I assume this, because as a grown man, text on the internet doesn’t hurt me.

Now back on topic, Windows 10 support has a hard cut off date in ~5 months. Why am I going to stay on an operating system that does not get updated. That’s rhetorical in case you couldn’t understand, because I’m not going to.

Please reference these patch notes you think you’re quoting. I’ve gone back to May 2024 and see nothing of the sort.

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The delusions are real in today’s society. All you wanted to do was get me to go back to Windows 10. I declined several times, and yet you still try to manipulate. “oh well if you’re not gonna go back to 10 I can’t help you.” This is childish behavior, along with the wall of text you just left unedited with multiple, we’ll call them emotional typo’s. I’ve only partially skimmed it but all I see here is complaining and misstatements about blizzard and their position. If they had a specific position, it would be documented, period. Also I never demanded anybody fix anything, you again, should take your own advice, focus, and read.

I have actually fixed the issue as far as I can tell. I will not share with you specifically, but if someone else has a similar issue I’d be willing to share my findings. Nothing that you typed was in any way helpful or useful at all just so we’re clear.

I’ve had 8 instances running for 14+ hours now, so that debunks your BS quotes. Have a nice day mr blue hair.

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This is incorrect. Most of Blizzard’s positions are vague. They change them when they discover new exploits or behaviors that they believe are not in line with the spirit of their games. Many players would enjoy seeing the end of multiboxing since no one can fully play/engage with multiple instances simultaneously. Perhaps Blizzard will make that a reality someday.

In the meantime, please refrain from personal attacks on other forum users.